Friday, July 20, 2012

Field Trip: Metropolitan Museum

The flower arrangements are always astounding, dramatic and exotic. You could go to the museum for them alone.

Of course, on a vacation-time Thursday there were a million billion people there, and most of them were taking photos on their cell phones --just like me. Never quite know what to look at, since if you look at everything you get major sensory overload.

So looked at the modern photos exhibit, then retreated to the Spanish courtyard

to see the young man playing music.

Such a pretty young saint! You can look through the porthole in her chest to discover that she is a reliquary and has real bits of bone inside.....

18 comments:

So many people keen on seeing art! Wonderful. Looks more like a railway station in terms of people on the go. Fun effects and intriguing points of view in your shots. And reliquaries fascinate me: They are so weird!

Just to be inside that architecture would be amazing -same for Musee D'orsee. The old train station looked like something from the film Hugo - not to mention the Rousseau's, Van Gogh's and Lautrecs. Good thing they have a cafe on every level.. sustenance was required.

I've not been to the Metropolitan for a long, long time, so this was fun, Elizabeth! Big city galleries are often sensory overload. It's a pity your can't rent a room and just camp out for a week or so to catch everything in these places...LOL! Happy Weekend ((HUGS))